Posted on 08/14/2006 8:13:25 PM PDT by WaterDragon
August 14, 2006 -- From the Associated Press: BEIRUT, Lebanon Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Monday that his guerrillas achieved a "strategic, historic victory" against Israel - a declaration that prompted celebratory gunfire across the Lebanese capital.
Israel, to nobody's surprise, doesn't see it that way. Being a conservative, I am bound by a concept liberals deny exists. This concept is called "the truth." An historic perusal of the conservative memory covering recent Middle-East decades produces a mental pie of truth, each slice of which is an example of a time when a Jew said one thing and a Moslem said another -- and upon investigation it turned out that the Jew was describing reality and the Moslem was describing the same thing American liberals describe as a matter of course: a fairy tale.
Iran recently released a cartoon pictorial about the Holocaust. I haven't seen it. I don't need to see it. Iran recently said that the Holocaust never happened. Without seeing the new cartoon series, I know what it portrays, just as without seeing the film Syriana I knew what its message was simply by knowing who made the movie. American Hollywood liberals and God only knows what large percentage of Middle-East Moslems are natural allies if for no other reason than that they are professional liars...(snip)
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Agreed. Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon will be shown to be battles within a larger context. The war is just beginning, IMHO.
Arabs have a habit of delaring victory while the battle is still in progress and when the lose is obvious. This one is still in play.
The Lebanese are talking about incorporating the Hezzies into their Army. The big losers are the Lebanese, and they are the authors of their own misfortune, not the Israelis.
Why indeed..
"Why is there no country in the West with gumption enough to WIN a war?"
Your rant is so right.
What makes you say that?
A lot of Christians were run off. Let's see how many expats go back. However, The geography of Lebanon is not defensible. Without Christians, the territory would be part of Syria.
The last I checked we made the Saudis send aid.
What makes me say the Lebanese are the authors of their own misfortune?
There's no way all that armament got into the country without the Lebanese government knowing all about it. And there is no way in a country that size that the Lebanese people would not know all about the build up in the south. Did they think they'd never get the bill?
Did you see this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683139/posts
something that irks me is the bit about 2 soldier repeated again. He accuratley says, "And if attacking a sovereign nation on its territory, assassinating eight of its soldiers, kidnapping two others and, simultaneously, launching missiles on nine of its towns does not constitute a casus belli, the latter juridical principle will seriously need revising."
I wish I could find the article, but there was a story earlier with a cabinet level Lebanese official saying that Hezbollah fighters were welcome to join the Lebanese Army. They might as well just blow up their own buildings then! It would save a lot of trouble.
BOOYAH!
This is called leverage. John Bolton talked all along of two resolutions. That keeps everyone engaged, and keeps the UN from thinking they can go back to raping African girls or something.
Like the Democrats, the Hezzies declared a "moral victory."
Well as we like to say to those who think that moral victories mean something, "isn't that special?"
Only the Junk media could believe Democrats or terrorists think win "moral victories" by getting their butts kicked.
But of course the Freeper Sack Cloth and Ashes crowd would rather have a new excuse whine endlessly then hear reality.
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